Monday Update

Good evening everyone! What a great day tonight. The students had a great first day on their sites. The weather was nice, for the most part. A little bit of rain moved through the area, but it cleared out quickly. I am going to try to upload some photos of that into the SERVE 2013 photo section, but it might become a new gallery.

The evening was great as well. The students seem to be connecting well with Nate, our speaker. They also enjoyed playing a few games that were made by a couple of the groups. There should be a few pictures of that as well.

I know the students, as well as the host team, appreciate all the prayers from you. Thank you so much for your support.

P.S. I will add some pictures here tonight and the rest tomorrow morning.  If you have Facebook and following our page there (www.facebook.com/ccrc.serve) you can see all the pictures right now.

SERVE 2013 Pictures

Alright, so I have a few pictures that I wanted to share.  We had a great day at an area pond where we were able to play some team games, do some swimming, and also worship our Lord.  It was a great day, even though they called for rain, but it held off.  Here are the pictures and as the week progresses, we are going to add more.

Students Have Arrived...Here we go!!!

Good evening everyone following at home.  I don't have pictures to post yet, but I wanted to make sure you all knew that the students have all arrived safely and on time.  They had a great first dinner and evening tonight with devotions.  Feel free to ask me questions on here and I will try to answer the questions as soon as I can get to them.

SERVE 2013 Roselawn is just about here...

Welcome to the site, along with Facebook, where we will try to keep you up to date with pictures from each day and also any exciting notes that we would like to share with you throughout the week.  The Facebook group is found here: CCRC SERVE Facebook  Make sure you like this page so that you can get updates there as well.  Drive safely tomorrow!
Thanks!
Dan

New Pictures on FaceBook

Hi everyone! Serve has been going great! We are so thankful and grateful that you all were willing to let you kids come down to help us serve the community.

Check out the facebook page. I added a bunch of new pictures for you all to look at.

1st work day...

Well, here we are at the end of the first work day.  But first let me catch you up on what went on yesterday. 

SUNDAY

The day started off with a bang. Our wonderful cooks made delicious blueberry (and regular) pancakes.  The great thing about this area is the MANY blueberry farms we have.  Our blueberries came straight from the farm, picked the day before.  Following breakfast, the group was commissioned into service at CCRC.  They were real troupers making through 2 whole sermons!! After church ended, we all had the chance to meet and eat with our prayer partners. If you learn anything about our church it's that we know how to throw a potluck!  There was plenty of food for everyone.  Once finished with lunch, we bid our pray partners adieu and headed out to the Bos Dairy Farm Pond.  Things started off by breaking into work teams, followed by some games.  After a while we could tell the mid 90 (32 C) degree weather was taking a toll on the energy of the kids, so we granted them some freedom and sent them into the pond.   Our church was able to have their evening service outside at the pond, which was a big hit!  We worshiped and heard the first message from our fearless speaker, Aaron Shupe.  Dinner followed, with fresh dairy burgers and juicy watermelon.  We cleaned up after ourselves and headed back to church for showers and sleep.

TODAY!
Today we started off running.  We had a brief thunder and lightning scare, but it passed by very quickly.  We had another hot, hot day today.  We sent the kids off to their sites with equipment, food, and plenty of water.  Two teams joined 2 other teams to help tear off a roof.  I have to say, these are some great kids.  They worked together so well, followed instructions without complaint and even were brave enough to ask a neighbor if they could dunk their heads in the pool!  We are off to a great start and I can't wait to see what the rest of the week brings. 

I hope to put pictures up soon.  I know there are a few on the CCRC SERVE facebook page.  We've had a great number of emails from friends and families and the kids are SO happy for that.  Keep the emails coming!

Shalom,
Jennifer

They have arrived!!

Well my friends, all 4 of our SERVE churches arrived here in Roselawn, Indiana perfectly on time!  We were excited to see all their smiling faces-although I think they were more excited to just get out of the car :).  Within a few hours, we left for CCRC's Bandfest with the popular groups Abandon and Sidewalk Prophets.  We successfully accomplished our first SERVE project by helping with tear down at Bandfest. 
Now we are back at church preparing ourselves for some much needed rest.  We have a long day tomorrow with 2 commissioning services, a potluck with our prayer partners, games, some swimming, and finishing up the night with our first service by our speaker Aaron Shupe.
I look forward to getting to know the kids and leaders. 

If you would like to send a message to a SERVE participant please email ccrcserve@gmail.com .  Make sure you put the first and last name of the participant in the subject line.

Many blessings!
Jennifer Broersma
Community Life Coordinator